Friday, September 05, 2014

The WARner

Originally posted, 2011."It's going to happen. And it looks like something Big is brewing." - John O'Neill, September 10, 2001"When Bin Laden speaks, we have to listen, They have the capability to strike American soil any time they choose." - John O'Neill, 1997If Frank Warner/Pigman has a real life model, it's FBI agent John O'Neill, at least in his professional life. He was the one constant, heroic figure in the books I read that dealt with the events leading up to the atrocity of 9/11, two in particular, The Cell and The Man Who Warned America. He was also featured as the main lead in the TV film,The Path To 9/11. O'Neill warned everyone he could about Bin Laden years before anyone knew about him. And incredibly, he retired from the FBI in August of 2001 and then took a position as Director of Security at the Twin Towers weeks before the attacks. He was doing his job on 9/11 and didn't make it out of one of the towers alive. Here's the piece that was posted today that sparked my drawing: 9/11: Remembering The Man Whose Warnings Were Ignored.

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Bosch Fawstin, IllustWriter

I’m an Eisner nominated cartoonist and my current work is my series, The Infidel, featuring Pigman. I have three chapters currently available on Amazon Kindle and ComiXology.
I’m the winner of the AFDI Mohammad Cartoon Contest organized by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, where two jihadists attempted to murder as many of us as they could, but were cut down by a cop in Garland, Texas. The attack made the contest far bigger than it would have been otherwise and helped expose far too many among us to be enemies of free speech. It’s a sad day in America when I felt the need to tweet that “I’m a Radical for Free Speech”. I appeared on a number of TV news shows after the attack, but they refused to show my winning cartoon, so I decided not to appear any longer without it. The contest and the attack brought my work great attention, good and bad, including death threats, and has now afforded me opportunities to reach a bigger audience. I recently signed a contract with a book publisher for a big project that will be announced in 2016. Stay tuned.
Update: I appeared on John Stossel’s Fox News Special, “Censored in America”, with my winning cartoon.